State leaders won’t commit to specifics about how much they might invest in children’s mental health

Students arrive at a middle school in El Paso on Aug. 19, 2021. In the past year, Texas Health and Human Services has spent about $3.6 billion on behavioral health services for children and adults, but Texas still ranks 51st among states and Washington, D.C., when it comes to per capita mental health spending. Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Texas Tribune
By Karen Brooks Harper The Texas Tribune Jelynne LeBlanc Jamison makes the same impossible choice every month, when hundreds of children she can’t afford to…

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